God Doesn’t Put You And I In Timeouts

Ok so all who listen to this message will be listening to the 600 message that the Podcast Preacher has rolled out by the calling, commission, purposes, anointing, and power of God. Ha, I said it lake that because I want you to know that without God I should but be dead and well deserving of it. My life was absent of anything God for 34-years and if that doesn’t prove Gods patience towards us I am not sure what does. I do think what if God just said one day, “well that’s it, I must remove him from the earth before he does some real damage?” Hell! All day long and without escape I would have gone to the place that so few these days seem so unconcerned with. I tremble at the thought that I would have died by my own drunkenness or debauchery and have simple woke up or appeared in front of Jesus with no excuse for rejecting Him. None.

This is the stuff that all nightmares should be made up of, not that you should have nightmares, but that where you spend eternity ought to concern you more than anything else on this earth. Yes we only get to visit this planet for about 70-years. Yup, we are camping on this earth for about 70-years and the campground has some rules and if followed then we go to heaven and get to live in a new campground which is so nice that it is called Paradise. A new earth. But if we follow the rules of the earth that most all people follow, living to consume all and to experience any and all pleasure without remorse or what they believe, without consequences. Hey why do people say that they do not believe in God? Same reason I didn’t want to believe. Because if He did exist, and down in my child person I did in fact believe it, it was the bent adults that convinced me otherwise, and is this not the precise thing that happens to all kids? Yes, but so if I believed as a sinning adult then it would be true that my sins would deliver me to hell forever. Ya let that echo in your ears…forever. Not for 70-years. Nope, for 70 X infinity X infinity. Why do we not have a realistic view of the consequences of our sins? Well besides instant gratification and the fact that when we were born we were satan’s children, so like father like son and I say this not to the exclusion of the daughters.

So the message will deal with the fringes of why we ignore the obvious, but before we cut into it, sit down as a believer and be sure you are an active, not passive, but active Christian. Yes some of us are busy trying to improve our camping conditions, but it is for not. In some strange way trying to preserve the old campsite is like applying the solution of which we have which is to build dams to store water and to prevent floods while at the same time destroying migratory fishing lanes or displacing 100’s of old towns that will now be under water. This is a minor example of how things just work in this old campground. Same, same when you go to a doctor for surgery right? They cause a minor injury, we hope, so as to deal with a major injury or life-threatening disease. In the case of cancer they take a human near to death to try and kill the thing that will in most cases do it anyway.